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RONALD
C. KRAMER
| Department of Sociology | 2116 Benjamin Avenue |
| Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 |
| Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 | 616-382-2443 |
| 616-387-5284 |
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Ph.D. The Ohio State University - 1978 (Sociology)
MA The Ohio State University - 1974 (Sociology)
BE University of Toledo - 1973 (Education)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Director Criminal Justice
Program-WMU 1992-
Professor Western Michigan
University 1990-
Associate Professor Western Michigan University 1983-1990
Assistant Professor Western Michigan University 1978-1983
Instructor The Ohio State
University 1975-1978
Teaching Associate The Ohio State University 1973-1975
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
| Criminology | Corporate and Governmental Crime |
| Criminal Justice | Political Economy |
| Sociological Theory | Militarism and Peace Studies |
| Social Problems & Deviance | Baseball and Society |
HONORS AND AWARDS
President - WMU Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society,
1996-1997.
Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1992.
Teaching Excellence Award, Western Michigan University,
1981.
Faculty Research Fund Fellowship Award, Western Michigan
University, 1989-90, 1985-86, 1983-84, 1981-82, 1979-80.
Nominated Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate, The
Ohio State University, 1977, 1976.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Crimes of the American Nuclear State: At Home and Abroad. (With David
Kauzlarich.) Boston: Northeastern University Press (1998).
Edited
Volumes
Justice Under Clinton. (Co-edited with Raymond J. Michalowski.) Special Issue of Social
Justice 22 (No. 2, 1995).
The Sociology of the Nuclear Threat. (Co-edited with Sam Marullo.) Special Feature in The Sociological Quarterly 26 (No. 3, 1985).
Humanistic Perspectives in Criminology. (Co-edited with
Stuart Hills.) Special Issue of the Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare 12 (September, 1985).
Journal
Articles and Book Chapters
"Corporate Violence Against Women." Pp. 165-175 in Lynne Goodstein and Claire
Renzetti (Eds.), Women, Crime and Criminal Justice: Original Feminist Readings. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company (2001).
"Poverty, Inequality and Youth Violence." THE ANNALS of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 567 (January, 2000):124-140.
"The Opinion of the International Court of Justice
on the Use of Nuclear Weapons:
Implications for Criminology."
(With David Kauzlarich.) Contemporary
Justice Review 2 (1999):395-413.
"Interview With Ronald C. Kramer." Corporate Crime Reporter 13 (No. 2,
January, 1999):12-16.
"The Nuclear Terrorist State." (With David Kauzlarich.) Peace Review 7 (1995):333-337.
"The Iron Fist and the Velvet Tongue: Crime Control Policies in the Clinton
Administration." (With Raymond J.
Michalowski.) Social Justice 22
(No. 2, 1995):87-100.
"Hybrid Nonwomen and Corporate Violence: The Silicone Breast Implant Case." (With Linda Rynbrandt.) Violence Against Women 1 (No. 3,
September, 1995):206-227.
"Exploring State Criminality: The Invasion of Panama." Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular
Culture 3 (No. 2, 1995):43-52.
"State Violence and Violent Crime." Peace Review 6 (No. 2, Summer,
1994):171-175.
Reprinted in David
Friedrichs (Ed.), State Crime. Volume I:
Defining, Delineating and Explaining State Crime. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing. (1998):375-379.
"Ethics in Organizations: The Challenger Explosion."
Pp. 165-185 in James Jaksa and Michael Pritchard, Communication
Ethics: Methods of Analysis (2nd Edition).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (1994).
Reprinted in James
Jaksa and Michael Pritchard (Eds.), Responsible Communication: Ethical Issues in Business, Industry, and the Professions. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (1996):53-73.
"State-Corporate Crime in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Facilities." (With David
Kauzlarich.) Journal of Human
Justice 5 (No. 1, Autumn, 1993):4-28.
Reprinted in David Friedrichs
(Ed.), State Crime. Volume I:
Defining, Delineating and Explaining State Crime. Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate Publishing.
(1998):327-351.
"Toward the Study of Governmental Crime: Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Intervention, and
International Law." (With David
Kauzlarich and Brian Smith.) Humanity
and Society 16 (No. 4, 1992):543-563.
Reprinted in David
Friedrichs (Ed.), State Crime. Volume I:
Defining, Delineating and Explaining State Crime. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing. (1998):49-69.
"The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: A Case Study of State-Corporate
Crime." Pp. 212-241 in Kip
Schlegel and David Weisburd (Eds.), White Collar Crime Reconsidered. Boston:
Northeastern University Press (1992).
"Criminologists and the Social Movement Against
Corporate Crime." Social
Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict,
and World Order 16 (No. 2, 1989):146-164.
"The Space Shuttle Disaster: Ethical Issues in Organizational
Decision-Making" reproduced on microfiche and placed in the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC) system by the Clearinghouse on Reading
and Communication Skills, Urbana, Illinois.
An abstract of the paper was published in Resources in Education
(November, 1987).
"The Space Between Laws: The Problem of Corporate Crime in a Transnational
Context." (With Raymond J.
Michalowski.) Social Problems 34
(February, 1987):301-320.
Reprinted in Nikos
Passas (Ed.), Transnational Crime.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate
Publishing. (Forthcoming, 1999).
Reprinted in William
Newman and Frances Bourdreau (eds.), Understanding Social Life. West
Publishing Co. (1993):193-203.
Reprinted in William J. Chambliss and Janet Katz (eds.), Crime
and Criminal Justice: A Conflict
Perspective. New York: McGraw Hill
Book Company (1993).
Reprinted in William D. Perdue (ed.), Systemic Crisis. New York:
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich (1993):479-495.
Reprinted in John F. Galliher (ed.), Human Behavior
and Human Rights. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall (1991):68-81.
Reprinted in Delos
Kelley (ed.), Criminal Behavior.
New York: St. Martin's Press
(1990):344-366
"The Pinto Prosecutor: An Interview with Michael A. Cosentino." Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences White
Paper Series. ACJS Today (May,
1986):3-5.
"Toward a Sociology of Nuclear Weapons." The Sociological Quarterly 26 (No. 3,
1985):277-292.
"Defining the Concept of Crime: A Humanistic Perspective." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
12 (September, 1985):469-487.
"Strukturierte Ungleichheit, Verbrechensofer Und
Strategien Sozialer Kontrolle: Ein
Kritischer Blick auf Kriminal Pravention." ("Structured Inequality, Crime Victims and Social Control
Strategies: A Critical View on Crime
Prevention.") Translated by Helmut
Janssen, Pp. 371-405 in Helmut Janssen and Hans-Jurgen Kerner (eds.), Verbrechensopfer,
Socialarbeit Und Justiz (Victims of Crime, Social Work and Justice) Neve
Folge, Vol. 3. Bonn: Deutschen
Bewahrungshilfe (1985).
Reprinted in Helmut Janssen, Reiner Kaulitzki and Raymond
J. Michalowski (eds.), Radikale Kriminologie - Themen and theoretische
Positionen der Ameridanischen Radical Criminology. Bielefeld:
AJZ Druck and Verlag GmbH. (1988):260-283.
"The Ideological Construction of Crime: An Analysis of the LEAA Career Criminal
Program." Deviant Behavior. 5 (No. 2, 1984):217-237.
"Critical Criminology, Traditional Crime, and Public
Policy." Journal of Sociology
and Social Welfare. ll (June,
1984):252-293.
"Is Corporate Crime Serious Crime? Criminal Justice and Corporate Crime
Control." Journal of
Contemporary Criminal Justice. 2
(June, 1984):7-10.
"Corporate Criminality: The Development of an Idea." Pp. 13-37 in Ellen Hochstedler (ed.), Corporations as
Criminals. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications (1984).
Translated into Japanese and published by Gakuyoh-Shoboh
of Tokyo (1990).
"A Prolegomenon to the Study of Corporate
Violence." Humanity and Society
7 (May, 1983):149-178.
"From 'Habitual Offenders' to 'Career
Criminals': The Historical Construction
and Development of Criminal Categories."
Law and Human Behavior 6 (Nos. 3/4, 1982):273-293.
"The Debate Over the Definition of Crime: Paradigms, Values, and Criminological Work." Pp. 33-58 in Frederick Elliston and Norman
E. Bowie (eds.) Ethics, Public Policy, and Criminal Justice. Cambridge, MA: Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain (1982).
"Corporate Crime:
An Organizational Perspective,"
Pp. 75-94 in Peter W. Wickman and Timothy B. Daily (eds.), White
Collar and Economic Crime.
Lexington, MA: Lexington
Books. (1982).
"Critical Criminology in the Classroom"
reproduced on microfiche by the Educational Resources Information Center,
Document Reproduction Service, Boulder, CO. (1980). An Abstract of the
paper was published in the July, 1980 issue of Resources in Education,
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
"Shock Parole:
A Preliminary Evaluation." International
Journal of Criminology and Penology 4 (1976):271-284 (co-author).
Book
Reviews
"Review of Explaining Criminals by Gwynn
Nettler." Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology, 75 (1984):307-309.
"Review of Corporate Deviance and Corporate
and Governmental Deviance by David Ermann and Richard J. Lundman." Deviant Behavior. 4 (Nos. 3 and 4, 1983):510-511.
"Review of Social Problems: A Critical Approach, by Kenneth Neubeck," Teaching Sociology 7 (October, 1980):111-113.
"Review of Deviant Behavior: An Interactionist Approach, by Erich
Goode," Contemporary Sociology 9 (July, 1980):533-534.
"Review of Crime and Criminalization by
Clayton Hartjen," Teaching Sociology 6 (July, 1979):452-454.
TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
From 1987 until the tragic death of my good friend,
Director and Producer Harvey Stewert on April 15, 1995, I served as Host and
Co-Producer for a monthly Kalamazoo Public Access Cable Television Program, WMU
Forum. This half-hour program
explored important social issues and current events, drawing on Western
Michigan University faculty, students, staff and occasional guests to provide
their insights and expertise. I
selected the topics and guests, researched the topic, organized the
pre-production meeting, and hosted the program. The following 85 programs were produced and broadcast over the years:
Program #1:
Prison Overcrowding
Guests:
Tom Edmonds and Kevin Minor
First Air Date: July 23, 1987
Program #2:
Green Politics
Guests:
Maynard Kaufman and Eric Nelson
First Air Date: August 7,
1987
Program #3:
The Constitution
Guests:
Ralph Chandler
First Air Date: September 4,
1987
Program #4:
Media Ethics
Guests:
Tony Griffin and Jerry Morton
First Air Date: October 2,
1987
Program #5:
Psychological Effects of Rape
Guests:
Michele Burnette and Barbara Olasov
First Air Date: November 1987
Show Repeated: June 3, 1988
Program #6:
Tropical Forests and Our Future
Guests:
Ken Dahlberg and Norman Myers
First Air Date: March 4, 1988
Program #7:
Crime Victims
Guests:
Paul Friday and Gilbert Geis
First Air Date: May 6, 1988
Program #8:
The Peace Movement
Guests:
Paul Loeb
First Air Date: December 4,
1987
Program #9:
Alzheimer's Disease
Guests:
Ellen Page-Robin and Michelle Stone
First Air Date: January 3,
1988
Program #10: The Russian
Method of Ballet Teaching
Guests:
Eugene Mills and Cathy Huling
First Air Date: February 5,
1988
Program #11: MLK and Black
America Today
Guests:
Ben Wilson
First Air Date: April 1, 1988
Program #12: Ethics in Academia
Guests:
Diether Haenicke and Mike Pritchard
First Air Date: July 1, 1988
Program #13: Solid Waste
Management
Guests:
Rhonda Sherman-Huntoon and Mike Swords
First Air Date: August 5,
1988
Program #14: Olympic Gold Medal
Winners
Guests:
Lew Carlson
First Air Date: September 2,
1988
Program #15: Presidential
Election Campaign, 1988
Guests:
Pete Renstrom and Chet Rogers
First Air Date: October 7,
1988
Program #16: Violence Against
Women
Guests:
Grace Orlando and Rich Oxhandler
First Air Date: November 4,
1988
Program #17: Peace Links
Guests:
Betty Bumpers
First Air Date: December 2,
1988
Program #18: Corporate Crime
Guests:
Peter Yeager
First Air Date: January 6,
1989
Program #19: Cross-Cultural
Communication
Guests:
James Leigh
First Air Date: February 3,
1989
Program #20
Water Resources
Guests:
Tom Straw, Don Brown and Dick Passero
First Air Date: March 3, 1989
Program #21: Student Activism in
the 80's
Guests:
Brian Smith, Amy Walsh and Jess Reaser
First Air Date: April 7, 1989
Program #22: The Craft of
Writing
Guests:
Stu Dybeck
First Air Date: May 5, 1989
Show Repeated: August 3, 1990
Program #23: The Situation in
Nicaragua
Guests:
Don Cooney
First Air Date: June 2, 1989
Program #24: The Chinese Student
Movement
Guests:
Tiehan Liu, Jean Chang, and Tom Kostrezwa
First Air Date: July 7, 1989
Program #25: Sports Talk/Sports
Metaphors
Guests:
Bob Palmatier and Hal Ray
First Air Date: August 4,
1989
Program #26: Loss and Grief
Guests:
Molly Vass
First Air Date: September 1,
1989
Show Repeated: July 5, 1991
Program #27: Michael Harrington
and Democratic Socialism
Guests:
Gary Dorrien
First Air Date: October 6,
1989
Program #28: The Drug
Crisis
Guests:
Paul C. Friday and Dennis Simpson
First Air Date: November 3,
1989
Program #29: Redefining
National Security
Guests:
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
First Air Date: December 1,
1989
Program #30: Palestinian
Conflict
Guests:
Andrea Tally, Eric Johnson, and Rev. Donald Van Hoeven
First Air Date: January 5,
1990
Program #31: Soviet Union
Guests:
Jim Butterfield and John Norman
First Air Date: February 2,
1990
Program #32: Eastern
Europe
Guests:
Bill Ritchie and Tom Kostrezwa
First Air Date: March 2, 1990
Program #33: Educational
Restructuring
Guests:
Ron Crowell and Pat Jenlink
First Air Date: April 6, 1990
Program #34: Jewish
Theology of Liberation
Guests:
Marc Ellis
First Air Date: May 4, 1990
Program #35: Parental
Consent for Abortion Laws
Guests:
Michelle Serlin and Dorothy Talanda
First Air Date: June 8, 1990
Program #36: Eastern
Europe
Guests:
Rudi Siebert
First Air Date: July 6, 1990
Program #37: Sunseeker,
Solar Car
Guests:
Dick Hathaway - Students
First Air Date: September 7,
1990
Program #38: The Life and
Thought of B. F. Skinner
Guests:
Jack Michael and Dick Malott
First Air Date: October 5,
1990
Program #39: The Savings
and Loan Crisis
Guests:
Ray Zelder and Richard Hatfield
First Air Date: November 2,
1990
Program #40: AIDS
Education
Guests:
Wayne Fuqua and Christine Zimmer
First Air Date: December 7,
1990
Program #41: Moral Issues
in the Persian Gulf Crisis
Guests:
Father John Grathwohl and Rev. Jim Wilson-Garrison
First Air Date: January 4,
1991
Program #42: Media
Coverage of the Gulf War
Guests:
George Robeck and Tony Griffin
First Air Date: February 1,
1991
Program #43: Gilmore
Keyboard Festival
Guests:
David Hook and David Pocock
First Air Date: March 1, 1991
Program #44: Prospects for
Peace in the Middle East
Guests:
Al Rosenthal and Sami Esmail
First Air Date: April 5, 1991
Program #45: Crisis in the
Soviet Union
Guests:
Lew Carlson
First Air Date: May 3, 1991
Program #46: New
Directions in Criminology
Guests:
Sue Caulfield
First Air Date: June 7, 1991
Program #47: The Theatre
Today
Guests:
Terry Williams and Marin Mazzie
First Air Date: August 2,
1991
Program #48: Understanding
Entrepreneurs
Guests:
Trudy Verser and Bill Redmon
First Air Date: September 6,
1991
Program #49: Institute for
the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations
Guests:
Lewis Walker and Earl Washington
First Air Date: October 4,
1991
Program #50: Teaching
Peace and Nonviolence
Guests:
Colman McCarthy
First Air Date: November 1,
1991
Program #51: Unplug the
Christmas Machine
Guests:
Holly Walls and Sara Schoolmaster
First Air Date: December 6,
1991
Show Repeated: December 4, 1992
Program #52: Ethical
Issues in Advertising
Guests:
Dennis Simpson and Ann Thompson
First Air Date: January 3,
1992
Program #53: Reflections
on the Persian Gulf War
Guests:
Jim Ferreira
First Air Date: February 7,
1992
Program #54: Women's
History Month
Guests:
Gwen Raaberg and Linda Borish
First Air Date: March 6, 1992
Program #55: Take Back the
Night March
Guests:
Sue Caulfield and Jennifer St. Pierre
First Air Date: April 3, 1992
Program #56: The Auto
Insurance Controversy
Guests:
Gary Mitchell and Ken Kennedy
First Air Date: May 1, 1992
Program #57: The Future of
Yugoslavia
Guests:
Rudi Siebert
First Air Date: June 5, 1992
Program #58: Race and
Ethnic Relations
Guests:
Doug Davidson
First Air Date: July 3, 1992
Program #59: Human Rights
in Columbia
Guests:
Leslie Wirpsa
First Air Date: August 7,
1992
Program #60: Women and
Leadership
Guests:
Shirley Van Hoeven
First Air Date: September 4,
1992
Show Repeated: January 7, 1994
Program #61: 1992 Election
Guests:
Pete Renstrom and Chet Rogers
First Air Date: October 2,
1992
Program #62: American
Ideology
Guest:
Howard Zinn
First Air Date: November 6,
1992
Program #63: Gilmore Young
Artists Showcase
Guest:
David Hook, Steve Zegree and Xavier Davis
First Air Date: January 1,
1993
Program #64: Thurgood
Marshall's Legacy
Guest:
Sandy Lipsey, Carolyn Williams
First Air Date: February 5,
1993
Program #65: Kalamazoo's
Women's Festival
Guest:
Allene Dietrich, Joan Morin and Sally Munger
First Air Date: March 5, 1993
Program #66: American
Indian Issues
Guest:
Don Fixico
First Air Date: April 2, 1993
Program #67: Michigan
Political Issues
Guest:
Howard Wolpe
First Air Date: May 7, 1993
Program #68: HIV/AIDS
Education and Prevention
Guest:
Wayne Fuqua, Chris Zimmer and Terry Baxter
First Air Date: June 4, 1993
Program #69: Clinton Crime
Control Policies
Guest:
Ray Michalowski
First Air Date: July 2, 1993
Program #70: The War in
Bosnia
Guest:
Rudi Siebert
First Air Date: August 6,
1993
Program #71: Issues in
Diversity and Multiculturalism
Guest:
Martha Warfield and Paul Wilson
First Air Date: September 3,
1993
Program #72: Central
American Issues
Guest:
Jack Nelson Pallmeyer
First Air Date: October 1,
1993
Program #73: U.S. Army
School of the Americas
Guest:
Father Roy Bourgeois
First Air Date: November 5,
1993
Program #74: NAFTA
Guest:
Susan Poza and Bill Kern
First Air Date: December 3,
1993
Program #75: Thinking
Sociologically About The Holocaust
Guest:
Jerry Markle
First Air Date: February 4,
1994
Show Repeated: March 7, 1995
Program #76: Community
Policing
Guest:
Ed Edwardson and Rhonda DeLong
First Air Date: March 4, 1994
Program #77: Caroline
Bartlett Crane
Guest:
O'Ryan Rickard and Linda Rynbrandt
First Air Date: May 3, 1994
Program #78: The Joshua
Series
Guest:
Father Joe Girzone
First Air Date: June 7, 1994
Program #79: Changing
Organizational Culture
Guest:
Trudy Verser
First Air Date: July 5, 1994
Program #80: Government
Crime
Guest:
David Kauzlarich
First Air Date: August 2, 1994
Program #81: The Crisis of
Government
Guest:
Ralph Clark Chandler
First Air Date: September 6,
1994
Program #82: The 1994
Elections
Guest:
Peter Renstrom
First Air Date: October 11,
1994
Program #83:
Haiti
Guest:
Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton
First Air Date:
November 8, 1994
Program #84:
A Decade of Victims
Guest:
Robert Wertkin
First Air Date: December 6,
1994
Program #85: Nonviolence,
Community and Resistance
Guest:
Phil Berrigan and Liz McAlister
First Air Date: January 17, 1995
RADIO COMMENTARIES
From 1987 to 1989, when they changed their news format, I
served as a regular commentator on WMUK, the National Public Radio station in
Kalamazoo. My commentaries were
broadcast during "The Morning Edition" news program on the average of
once a month. The following
commentaries were broadcast:
DATE TITLE
June - 1989 Abortion
May - 1989 The
Bush Crime Plan
March - 1989 The
Federal Deficit and Progressive Social Policy
January - 1989 The
Forgotten Side of Martin Luther King
November - 1988 The
1988 Election Campaign
September - 1988 The
Candidates and National Defense
July - 1988 The
Tobacco Cartel
May - 1988 Taxes
and Military Spending
April - 1988 Martin
Luther King Commemoration
March - 1988 The
Jesse Jackson Campaign
February - 1988 The
Propaganda System and Nicaragua
January - 1988 The
INF Treaty
December - 1987 The
Spirit of Christmas
November - 1987 Children
in Crisis
September - 1987 The
Threat of Nuclear War
July - 1987 Street
Crime
June - 1987 Military
Spending
March - 1987 The
Iran/Contra Scandal
February - 1987 The
ABC TV Program - Amerika
January - 1987 The
Space Shuttle Challenger
In 1994 I resumed the role of commentator on WMUK. The following commentaries were broadcast:
April - 1994 The
Senate Crime Bill
April - 1994 Crime
Prevention Policies
RESEARCH REPORTS
Final Report on Corporate Crime in the Defense Industry. (August, 1987).
Final Report on the Social Origins of Federal Regulation
of the Auto Industry. (October, 1985).
Final Report on Prosecutorial Discretion: An Analysis of the Decision to Charge. (December,
1982).
Final Report on Corporate Violence and Social
Control: A Case Study of the Ford Pinto
Affair.
(March, 1981).
The Origins and Development of the LEAA Career Criminal
Program (January, 1979).
Evaluation Report on the Franklin County Public
Defender's Program for the Defense of the Professional Habitual Criminal (June, 1977).
Final Report on the Evaluation of Shock Parole (June, 1975) with Joseph E. Scott.
The Historical Development of Shock Parole (November, 1974).
PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2000
Presented "The Emerging Battle Over the World Trade
Organization: Implications for the
Study and Control of Transnational Corporate Crime" at the Annual Meetings
of the American Society of Criminology, November 15, San Francisco.
Presented "Globalization, Transnational Corporate
Harm, and the Narrowing of Legal Space for State Control" at Birzeit
University, Ramallah, Palestine on September 30 as part of a lecture series on
Globalization and Development sponsored by the Development Studies Programme of
Birzeit University and the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Middle East Office.
Presented "The Battle in Seattle: Or How The World Trade Organization Heralds
a New Challenge for The Study and Control of Transnational Corporate
Crime" (with Ray Michalowski) at the Annual Meetings of the Society for
the Study of Social Problems, August 12, Washington D.C.
1999
Presented "The Changing Nature of State Crime in an
Era of Globalization" (with Ray Michalowski) at the Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Criminology, November 17, Toronto, Canada.
Presented "Transnational Corporate Crime and State
Control in an Era of Globalization" (with Ray Michalowski) at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 5, Chicago,
Illinois.
1998
Presented "State-Corporate Crime: A Concept in Search of a Theory" at the
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 11, Washington,
D.C.
Presented "The Role of Inequality, Poverty and
Social Exclusion in Shaping the Problem of Youth Violence" at the
Conference on "Reading, Writing and Retaliation: Violence in our Schools," October 2, Valparaiso University,
Indiana.
Presented "Explaining and Controlling the Crimes of
the Nuclear State" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, August 21, San Francisco, California.
1997
Presented "The International Court of Justice
Opinion on the Illegality of the Threat
or Use of Nuclear Weapons: Implications
for Criminology" (with David Kauzlarich) at the Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Criminology, November 20, San Diego, California.
1996
Presented "Ideological Implications of the
Definitional Debate in Criminology" at the Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, November 20, Chicago, Illinois.
1995
Presented "Crimes of the Nuclear State" (with
David Kauzlarich) at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
November 17, Boston.
Organized a Special Session titled "50 Years After
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Social &
Moral Reflections" for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, August 19, Washington, D.C.
Presented "Banning the Bomb: The Illegality of Nuclear Weapons Under
International Law" (with David Kauzlarich) at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 19, Washington, D.C.
1994
Presented "A Theory of International Governmental
Crime" (with David Kauzlarich) at the Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, November 11, Miami, Florida.
Participated in a Roundtable Panel on "Democracy and
Citizen Participation in Corporate Crime Control" at the Annual Meeting of
The American Society of Criminology, November 11, Miami, Florida.
Presented "The Iron Fist and the Velvet Tongue: Crime Control Policies in the Clinton
Administration" (with Ray Michalowski) at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 5, Los Angeles,
California.
Presented "Foundational Barriers to the Study of
International Government Crime" at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, March 12, Chicago, Illinois.
1993
Presented "Structural Violence and State
Terrorism: Neglected Forms of Criminal
Violence" at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, October 29, Phoenix, Arizona.
Presented "Corporate Violence Against Women: The Silicone Breast Implant Case" (with
Linda Rynbrandt) at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, October 27, Phoenix, Arizona.
Presented "Whiffs of Progressivism, But We Won't Get
High: Crime Control Policies Under the
Clinton Administration" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, August 13, Miami.
1992
Presented "State Criminality, Militarism, and the
Struggle for Justice at Home" at the 44th Annual American Society of
Criminology Meeting, November 6, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Chaired and served as Discussant for a session titled
"Crime and Criminology in Context" at the 44th Annual American
Society of Criminology Meeting, November 6, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Presented "The Silicone Breast Implant
Controversy: A Case Study of
Organizational Deviance" (with Linda Rynbrandt) at the Society for the
Study of Social Problems Meeting, August 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Presented "The Genocidal Mentality: Nuclear Weapons as Organizational
Deviance" (with David Kauzlarich) at the Society for the Study of Social
Problems Meeting, August 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1991
Presented "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy as
Governmental Crime" (with David Kauzlarich) at the Annual Meeting of the
North Central Sociological Association, April, Dearborn, Michigan.
Presented "Comments on John Braithwaite's Crime
Shame and Reintegration" at an Author meet Critics session at the 43rd
Annual American Society of Criminology Meeting, November 22, San Francisco,
California.
Presented "Michigan Nuremberg Campaign" at the
Criminology as Peacemaking Roundtable at the 43rd Annual American Society of
Criminology Meeting, November 21, San Francisco, California.
Presented "State Corporate Crime in the U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Facilities" at the 43rd Annual American Society of Criminology
Meeting, November 20, San Francisco, California.
Presented "Militarism as State-Corporate Crime"
at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Meeting, August 22, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
1990
Presented "Toward an Integrated Theory of State and
Corporate Crime" (with Ray Michalowski) at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Criminology, November 9, Baltimore.
Presented "Toward the Future Study of Governmental
Crime: Nuclear Weapons, Foreign
Intervention, and International Law" (with Dave Kauzlarich and Brian
Smith) at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
November 9, Baltimore.
Presented "The Concept of State-Corporate
Crime" at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, August 9, Washington, D.C.
Presented "State-Corporate Crime: A Case Study of the Space Shuttle Challenger
Explosion" at the Edwin Sutherland Conference on White Collar Crime: 50 Years of Research and Beyond, Indiana
University, May 13, Bloomington, Indiana.
Presented "State-Corporate Crime" at the joint
meeting of the North Central Sociological Association and the Southern
Sociological Society, March 22, Louisville, Kentucky.
1989
Presented "The Legacy of Edwin Sutherland" at
the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, Reno,
Nevada.
Presented "From White Collar to State Organized
Crime" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, August 6, Berkeley, California.
Organized and Chaired a session on "The Legacy of
Edwin Sutherland: 50 Years of White
Collar Crime Research" for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, Berkeley, California, August 6, 1989
1988
Presented "Organizational Crime by State
Agencies: The Space Shuttle Challenger
Disaster" at the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 11, 1988, Chicago, Illinois.
Presented "Towards the Study of Organizational and
Institutional Harms: Moral and Political
Choices in Criminological Work" at a debate session, "In Search of
the Greater Evil: Competing Emphases in
the Definition of Crime and their Importance for Criminological Research and
Theory," held during the 40th Annual Meeting of The American Society of
Criminology, November 10, 1988, Chicago, Illinois.
Presented "Crossing the Line: Active Participation in the Peace
Movement" at the Fall Conference of the Western Michigan Psychological
Association, October 21, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Presented "The Military Budget and the Quality of
Life" at Bombs or Butter?, a Military Budget Conference hosted by Michigan
SANE/FREEZE, May 21, Lansing, Michigan.
1987
Presented "Corporate Crime by Transnationals: A Theoretical Examination of Structural
Inducements" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 13, Montreal.
Participated in a workshop on "Progressive
Alternatives to the Conservative Agenda in American Criminal Justice" at
the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 13,
Montreal.
Presented "The Challenger Disaster: An Ethical Overview of Flawed
Decision-Making in a Complex Organization" (with James A. Jaksa) at the
73rd Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association, November 7,
Boston.
Presented "Toward a Theory of Organizational
Crime" at the 82nd Annual Meeting of The American Sociological
Association, August 17, Chicago, Illinois.
Organized and Chaired a Thematic Session on "Routine
Work and Organizational Crime" at the 37th Annual Meeting of The Society
for the Study of Social Problems, August 14, Chicago, Illinois.
Presented "The Space Shuttle Disaster as
Organizational Deviance" at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, August 14, Chicago, Illinois.
Presented "The Space Shuttle Disaster: Ethical Issues in Organizational
Decision-Making" as a showcase program selection for the joint meeting of
the Central States Speech Association and the Southern Speech Communication
Association, April 10, St. Louis, Missouri.
1986
Presented "Criminologists and the Crime of
Silence: Toward a Criminology of
Nuclear Weapons" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 1, Atlanta, Georgia.
Presented "The Space Shuttle Disaster: Ethical Issues in Organizational
Decision-Making" at the Fall Conference of the Michigan Association of
Speech Communication, October 4, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Perspectives on
the Nuclear Threat" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, August 28, New York.
1985
Presented "Murder in Bhopal: Media and the Politics of Naming Corporate
Crime" at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
November 14, San Diego, California.
Served as Discussant for a session on "Analyzing
Corporate Offenses: Progress and
Prospects" at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
November 15, San Diego, California.
Presented "On the Social Origins of Federal
Regulation of the Auto Industry" at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems, August 25, Washington, D.C.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Corporate Crime
and Federal Regulation" at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, August 25, Washington, D.C.
1984
Presented "Studying Crime Where There Is No
Law: Corporate Crime in the
Multinational Context" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society
of Criminology, November 9, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Organized and Chaired a session on "The Political
Economy of Corporate Crime" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, November 9, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Presented "Crime Control in the 1980s: A Progressive Alternative to Reaganism"
at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, October 11,
Chicago, Illinois.
Served as Discussant for a session on "Social
Problems Theory at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, August 25, San Antonio, Texas.
Organized and Chaired a roundtable entitled "War is
Peace, Peace is War: Newspeak and the
Buildup of Nuclear Arms" at the Annual Meeting of the North Central
Sociological Association, April 26, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Served as Discussant for a session on "Corporate and
White Collar Crime" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological
Society, April 21, Chicago, Illinois.
1983
Presented "Defining the Concept of Crime: A Humanistic Perspective" at the 35th
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 12, Denver,
Colorado.
Organized and led a roundtable discussion session on
"The Sociology of Nuclear Weapons" at the Annual Meeting of the
Michigan Sociological Association, October 29, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Presented "Corporate Violence and Social
Control" the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association,
September 1, Detroit, Michigan.
Organized and Chaired a session on "The Sociology of
Nuclear Weapons" at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, August 29, Detroit, Michigan.
Presented "Toward a Sociology of Nuclear
Weapons" at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological
Association, April 29, Columbus, Ohio.
Organized a panel session on "The Role of
Sociologists in the Nuclear Disarmament Movement" at the Annual Meeting of
the North Central Sociological Association, April 29, Columbus, Ohio.
Delivered the keynote address entitled "Society,
Crime, and Public Policy: The Critical
Criminology Perspective on Crime Control" at the 6th Annual Sociology
Conference at Western Kentucky University.
The conference, Critical Criminology: The Criminal Justice System in a Free Enterprise Society was
sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Western Kentucky University, and the
Barren River Chapter of the Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Presented "Some Preliminary Issues in the Study of
Corporate Crime" at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, March 23, San Antonio, Texas.
1982
Presented "Teaching Critical Criminology to Criminal
Justice Students: A Dilemma and
Proposed Resolution" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 4, Toronto, Canada.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Teaching
Criminology: Perspectives, Problems,
and Prospects" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 4, Toronto, Canada.
Presented "Corporate Crime Control: A Critical Perspective" at the 77th
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, September 6, San
Francisco, California.
Presented "Controlling Corporate Crime Through the
Use of Penetrating Controls: A Critical
Evaluation" at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, September 5, San Francisco, California.
Organized and Chaired a Thematic Session on "The
Social Control of and Within Organizations" at the 32nd Annual Meeting of
the Society for the Study of Social Problems, September 5, San Francisco,
California.
Presented "Controlling Corporate Crime Through
Strategies of Organizational Intervention:
A Critical Evaluation," at the Annual Meeting of the North Central
Sociological Association, May 7, Detroit, Michigan.
1981
Presented "On The Social Origins of Federal
Regulatory Law" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 14, Washington, D.C.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Corporate Violence
and Social Control" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 14, Washington, D.C.
Led a round table session on "The Social Control of
Corporate Violence" at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist
Sociology, October 14, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Presented "Toward the Study and Control of Corporate
Crime: Some Preliminary Questions and
Issues" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, August 24, Toronto, Canada.
1980
Presented "New Wave Criminology" at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 6, San Francisco,
California.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Politics, Crime,
and Criminal Justice" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 6, San Francisco, California.
Presented "A Prolegomenon to the Study of Corporate
Violence" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social
Problems, August 26, New York.
Presented "Effective Representation by Defense
Counsel: A Comparison of Private
Attorneys and Public Defenders" at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, March 14, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Organized and Chaired a session on "Corporate
Lawlessness" at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, Marcy 16, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Presented "The Ideological Construction of
Crime: An Analysis of the LEAA Career
Criminal Program" at the Annual Meeting of the Western Society of
Criminology, March 1, Newport Beach, California.
Presented "Corporate Crime: An Organizational Perspective" at the
Conference on White Collar and Economic Crime:
Trends and Problems in Research and Policy, February 9, Potsdam, New
York.
1979
Presented "The Ford Pinto Homicide Prosecution: Criminological Questions and Issues
Concerning the Control of Corporate Crime" at the Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Criminology, November 9, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Presented "Teaching Criminology: A Labeling-Conflict/Power Approach" at
the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 30, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Presented "The Rise and Demise of Ohio's Shock
Parole Program: A Case Study of
Resistance to Correctional Change" at the Annual Meeting of the North Central
Sociological Association, April 27, Akron, Ohio.
Presented "From Habitual Offenders to Career
Criminals: The Social Construction of
Criminal Categories" at the Annual Meeting for the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences, March 15, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1978
Presented "Constructing Legal Categories of Deviance: The Creation of Sexual Psychopaths and
Career Criminals" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, November 8, Dallas, Texas.
1977
Presented "Methodological Considerations in the
Evaluation of Effective Representation by Defense Attorneys" to a
colloquium at the Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, December 15, Seattle,
Washington.
1975
Presented "Shocking Offenders: Shock Probation and Shock Parole" at
the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology's Western Division,
February 14, San Francisco, California (co-author).
Presented "Shock Parole: An Innovative Correctional Alternative" at the Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, April 9, Chicago,
Illinois (co-author).
TEACHING
Courses
Taught
University 101 1993, 1994
Introduction to Sociology 1975-1978, 1987, 1990
Modern Social Problems 1975-Present
Criminology 1978-Present
Criminal Justice Process 1979-Present
Pro-seminar on Social Problems 1979
Current Issues in Criminology 1979, 1985
Social Problems and Deviance Theories 1980-Present
Advanced Criminology 1980-Present
Corporate and Governmental Crime 1981-Present
Contemporary Sociological Theory 1981-Present
Marxist Social Theory 1982, 1989
Nuclear Weapons and Society 1987
Peace and Global Futures 1990
Baseball and Society 1995, 1996, 1998
Sociology of Criminal Justice 1996
Graduate
Student Committees
Ph.D. Committee, Chair
17 students 1983-Present
Ph.D. Committee, Member 30 students 1978-Present
M.A. Committee,
Chair 18 students 1983-Present
M.A. Committee,
Member 61 students 1978-Present
SERVICE
Department
Director, Criminal Justice Program, 1992-
Director, Central Graduate Committee, 1997-1999.
Acting Director, Criminal Justice Program, 1984-1985.
Director, Undergraduate Program, 1982-1984.
Chair, Chair Search Committee, 1998-1999.
Chair, Leonard C. Kercher Symposia Series, 1993-1995.
Chair, Executive Council, 1992-1993, 1994-1995,
1995-1996.
Chair, Search Committee 1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994,
1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 1999-2000.
Chair, Departmental Merit Committee, 1995.
Chair, Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1988-1989.
Chair, Criminology Area Committee, 1984-1985, 1999-2000.
Chair, Social Problems Area Committee, 1979-Present.
Chair, Theory Area Committee, 1980-1989, 1998-1999.
Chair, Library Committee, 1978-1981.
Masters Student Advisor, 1981-1987, 1989-1992.
Member, Executive Council, 1979-1981, 1988-1990,
1991-1993, 1994-1996, 1997-1999, 2000-2002.
Member, Department Self-Study Committee, 1995-1996.
Member, Criminal Justice Program Committee, 1978-Present.
Member, Criminology Area Committee, 1978-1984; 1988-Present.
Member, Central Graduate Committee, 1980-1982; 1984-1987;
1988-1989, 1997-2000.
Member, Central Undergraduate Committee, 1980-1984.
Member, Graduate Awards Committee, 1983-1987.
Member, Search Committee, 1983-1984.
Member, Chair Selection Committee, 1979-1980.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Adjunct Faculty, 1984-1987.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Students, 1985.
Undergraduate Liaison, 1985-Present.
Graduate Liaison, 1985-Present.
AKD and Departmental Honors, 1982-1987.
Faculty Advisor, Criminal Justice Student Association,
1978-1984.
Faculty Advisor, Alpha Phi Sigma, 1982-1986.
Faculty Advisor, Sociology Student Association,
1982-1983.
University
College of Arts & Sciences, Promotion Committee,
1999-
Chair, Working Group on the Creation of a WMU Center for
Drug Court Research and Services, 1998-1999.
President, Phi Kappa Phi, 1996-1997.
Member, President's Committee to Investigate Campus
Violence, 1993-1994.
Olivet College Team, WMU Institute for the Study of Race
and Ethnic Relations, 1992-1993.
Search Committee, Honors College Dean, 1986-1987.
Honors College Evaluation and Planning Committee, 1986.
Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Ethics in
Society, 1985-Present.
Merit Scholarship Committee, College of Arts and
Sciences, 1985-1986; 1988-1990.
College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee,
1983-1986, 1990-1993.
Educational Policies Council, Faculty Senate, 1984-1986.
Committee to Review the Dissertation Process, 1983-1984.
Chair, Executive Committee, Humanistic Future Studies
Program, 1983-1984.
College of Arts and Sciences, College Panel, 1981-1983.
Faculty Advisor, WMU Chapter of United Campuses Against
Militarism, 1983-Present.
Peace and Global Futures Committee, 1985 - Present;
Chair, 1990 -
Judge, Medallion Scholarship Competition, 1988-Present.
Organizer, Annual Peace Education Week, 1983-Present.
Community
Member, Police-Community Relations Task Force on the KDPS
Complaint Process, 2000.
Member, Advisory Committee for the Selection of the
Chief, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, 2000.
President, Parent Advisory Committee, Loy Norrix High
School, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.
Member, Community Corrections Advisory Board, 1998-
Member, School Safety Committee, Kalamazoo Public
Schools, 1998.
Chair, Kalamazoo Coalition for the Prevention of Youth
Violence, 1996-1998.
Vice-Chair, Kalamazoo Coalition for the Prevention of
Youth Violence, 1995-1996.
Member, City of Kalamazoo Task Force on Youth Violence,
1994-1995.
Member, Kalamazoo Valley Community College Law
Enforcement Advisory Committee, 1993-
Camp Success Team, Kalamazoo Area Academic Achievement
Program (KAAAP), 1992-1993.
Advisor, Andy Davis for Congress Campaign, 1992.
Member, The Forum of Kalamazoo County, Committee on
Violence and Criminal Justice, 1992-1993.
Member, YWCA Task Force on Nonviolence.
Member, Executive Committee, Kalamazoo County Democratic
Party, 1988-1990.
Host and Co-Producer, WMU Forum, Cable Access TV
Program, Kalamazoo (WMU Media Services), 1987-1995.
Radio Commentary on The Morning Edition, WMUK, Kalamazoo,
1987-1989, 1994.
Rainbow Organizing Committee of Kalamazoo (R.O.C.K.),
1988-1990.
Kalamazoo Citizens for a Fair Share, 1988.
Member, Kalamazoo Area Coalition for Peace & Justice,
1983-Present.
Kalamazoo Nuclear Weapons Freeze, 1982.
Frequent Lectures on Peace and Justice Issues,
1979-Present.
Newspaper, radio, and television interviews,
1983-Present.
Professional
Member, C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, Society
for the Study of Social Problems, 1992.
Member, Election Committee, Crime and Delinquency
Section, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1989.
Member, Book Award Committee, Crime and Delinquency Section,
Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1989; Chair, 1990.
Member, Council, North Central Sociological Association,
1989-1990.
Reviewer, Social Justice, 1989, 1994.
Reviewer, Justice Quarterly, 1987-Present.
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Sociology and Social
Welfare, 1983-Present.
Member, White Paper Committee Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, 1985-1987.
Member, Student Membership Committee, American Society of
Criminology, 1985; 1989.
Reviewer, Publishing Houses, 1982-Present.
Reviewer, The Social Science Journal, 1984.
Reviewer, Social Problems, 1984-Present.
Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1983-1985.
Chair, Public Policy Committee, North Central
Sociological Association, 1982-1984.
Candidate, Vice-President Elect, North Central
Sociological Association, 1984.
Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social
Problems, 1982.
Reviewer, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,
1975.